core-lightning/INSTALL.md

Library Requirements

You will need several development libraries:

• libprotoc: the Google protocol buffer v2 library, 2.6.0 or above.
• protobuf-c: version 1.1.0 or above.
• libsodium: for crypto.
• libbase58: for bitcoin's base58 encoding.
• libsqlite3: for database support.
• libgmp: for secp256k1

You will also need a version of bitcoind with segregated witness support, such as the 0.13 or above.

To Build on Ubuntu 16.04

Get dependencies:

sudo apt-get install autoconf libtool libprotobuf-c-dev libsodium-dev libbase58-dev libsqlite3-dev libgmp-dev libsqlite3-dev

Clone lightning and initialize submodules:

git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
cd lightning
git submodule init
git submodule update

Build lightning:

make

Running lightning:

bitcoind
./daemon/lightningd
./daemon/lightning-cli help

Note: You may need to include testnet=1 in bitcoin.conf

To Build on Ubuntu 15.10

Build protobuf-c dependency (>= 1.1.0):

sudo apt-get install libprotoc-dev
git clone https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c.git
cd protobuf-c
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
cd ../

Clone lightning and initialize submodules:

git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
cd lighting
git submodule init
git submodule update

Build lightning:

make

Running lightning:

bitcoind
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
./daemon/lightningd
./daemon/lightning-cli help